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See also: Him, hím, HIM, H.I.M., and him-

Translingual

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Symbol

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him

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 language code for Western Pahari languages.

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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him (personal pronoun, objective case)

  1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
    1. With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
      • 1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] ‎[1]:
        […] therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.
      • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
        ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
    2. Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
    3. With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
  2. (colloquial) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
    Now him and Bernie are best friends.
    Released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
  3. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
  4. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene x]:
      Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.
    • 2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian:
      Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
  6. (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
    Synonyms: that guy, that nigga
    Stop trying that, you're not him bro.
    Bro thinks he's him.
    • 2023 October 25, u/baggypantsman, “Super Mario 64 - 0 Star in 6:16 by Suigi”, in Reddit‎[2], r/speedrun, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:
      Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.

Descendants

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  • Jamaican Creole: im
  • Pijin: hem
  • Pijin: -im

Translations

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English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
personal pronoun possessive
pronoun		 possessive
determiner
subjective objective reflexive
first person singular I
me (colloquial)		 me myself
me
mysen		 mine my
mine (before vowels, archaic)
me
plural we us ourselves
ourself
oursen		 ours our
second person singular standard, formal you you yourself
yoursen		 yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
archaic, informal thou thee thyself
theeself
thysen		 thine thy
thine (before vowels)
plural standard you
ye (archaic)		 you yourselves yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
colloquial you all
y'all
you guys		 you all
y'all
you guys		 y'allselves y'all's
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)		 y'all's
your all's (nonstandard)
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)
informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person singular masculine he him himself
hisself (archaic)
hissen		 his
hisn (obsolete outside dialects)		 his
feminine she her herself
hersen		 hers
hern (obsolete outside dialects)		 her
neuter it
hit		 it
hit		 itself
hitself		 its
his (archaic)		 its
his (archaic)
hits
genderless they them themself, themselves theirs their
genderless, nonspecific
(formal) 		one one oneself – one's
plural they them
hem, 'em		 themselves
theirsen		 theirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)		 their

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Noun

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him (plural hims)

  1. (informal) A male person or animal.
    Synonym: he
    I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
    • 1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
      […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
    • 2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel‎[3]:
      Both hims took a good look at him.
    • 2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68:
      By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”

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Anagrams

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Gayón

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Noun

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him

  1. water

References

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  • Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

Irish

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Noun

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him m

  1. h-prothesized form of im

Luxembourgish

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him

  1. third-person masculine singular, dative: him, to him
    Ech baken him e Kuch.
    I'm baking him a cake.
  2. third-person neuter singular, dative: her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)
    Hie war gëschter mat him am Kino.
    He went to the cinema with her yesterday.

Usage notes

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  • For the use of the neuter for referring to female persons, see hatt.

Declension

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Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative reflexive
str. unstr. str. unstr. str. unstr.
1st person singular ech — mech — mir mer like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular
(informal) 		du de dech — dir der like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Dir Der Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech
3rd person singular m hien en hien en him em sech
f si se si se hir er sech
n hatt et ('t) hatt et ('t) him em sech
1st person plural mir mer eis (ons) — eis (ons) — eis (ons)
2nd person plural dir der iech iech [əɕ] iech iech [əɕ] iech
3rd person plural si se si se hinnen en sech

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.

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Pronoun

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him (nominative he)

  2. Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
  3. (reflexive) himself.
  4. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
  5. (impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.
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Middle English personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
singular 1st-person I, ich, ik me min
mi1		 min
2nd-person þou þe þin
þi1		 þin
3rd-person m he him
hine2		 him his his
hisen
f sche, heo hire
heo 		hire hire
hires, hiren
n hit hit
him2		 his, hit —
dual3 1st-person wit unk unker
2nd-person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st-person we us, ous oure oure
oures, ouren
2nd-person4 ye yow your your
youres, youren
3rd-person inh. he hem
he2		 hem here here
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
þeires, þeiren

1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

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Etymology 2

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Pronoun

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him

  1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Mizo

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Adjective

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him

  1. safe
  2. unscathed

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adverb

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him

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of heim

Old English

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him

  1. dative of hē: him
  2. dative of hit: it
  3. dative of hīe: them
    • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
      Đyssum tidum Ongolcyningas þā æðelestan Ōswēo Norðanhymbra cyning ⁊ Eċġberht Contwarena cyning hæfdon betweoh him sprǣċe ⁊ ġeþēahte, hwæt tō donne wǣre bī þǣm stealle Ongolcynnes ċiriċan .
      At this time the most noble English kings, Oswiu of Northumbria and Ecgberht of Kent, held a discussion and conference between them about what was to be done about the state of the English church.

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Old Frisian

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him

  1. dative of hī; him

Inflection

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Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd m 3rd f 3rd n 1st 2nd 3rd
nominative ik thū hī hiū, hiō hit wī jī hiā
accusative mī thī hine hiā hit ūs jū, jō hiā
dative mī thī him hire, hiāre him ūs jū, jō him, hirem, hiārem
genitive mīn thīn sīn hire, hiāre sīn ūser jūwer hira, hiāra

Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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him

  1. oblique of hie; him

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Saterland Frisian personal pronouns
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd m 3rd f 3rd n 1st 2nd 3rd
stressed iek du hie ju dät wie jie jo
unstressed er ze et ze
objective mie die him hier dät uus jou hier

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “him”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Sursurunga

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Verb

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him

  1. to work

Further reading

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  • Sursurunga Organised Phonology Data (2011)

West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

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him

  1. object of hy

Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English him, from Old English him.

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him

  1. him
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 108:
      Shoo zent him o' die.
      She sent him one day.
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 108:
      Shoo zent him anoor die a gozleen to keep;
      She sent him another day the goslings to keep;

Derived terms

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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108
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